Rickettsia conorii subsp. israelensis infection: a case report from southeast Iran

BACKGROUND: Mediterranean spotted fever (MSF) is a zoonotic and vector-borne disease caused by Rickettsia conorii. We report a case (36 year-old-woman) of MSF caused by Rickettsia conorii from Iran. CASE PRESENTATION: In September 2019, the patient was admitted to the hospital in Kerman province wit...

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Autores principales: Latifian, Mina, Khalili, Mohammad, Farrokhnia, Mehrdad, Mostafavi, Ehsan, Esmaeili, Saber
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8974134/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35365079
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-022-07291-9
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author Latifian, Mina
Khalili, Mohammad
Farrokhnia, Mehrdad
Mostafavi, Ehsan
Esmaeili, Saber
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Khalili, Mohammad
Farrokhnia, Mehrdad
Mostafavi, Ehsan
Esmaeili, Saber
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description BACKGROUND: Mediterranean spotted fever (MSF) is a zoonotic and vector-borne disease caused by Rickettsia conorii. We report a case (36 year-old-woman) of MSF caused by Rickettsia conorii from Iran. CASE PRESENTATION: In September 2019, the patient was admitted to the hospital in Kerman province with flu-like symptoms and maculopapular lesions. According to the laboratory results, thrombocytopenia, elevated liver enzymes, and cardiac enzymes were observed. Skin biopsy was examined for Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) and MSF using the Real-Time-PCR and ELISA method. Finally, the sample was positive for Rickettsia conorii subsp. israelensis and treated with doxycycline and completely recovered. CONCLUSIONS: This study showed that MSF could be present in Iran. Therefore, identifying endemic areas in Iran for this disease should be on the agenda.
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spelling pubmed-89741342022-04-02 Rickettsia conorii subsp. israelensis infection: a case report from southeast Iran Latifian, Mina Khalili, Mohammad Farrokhnia, Mehrdad Mostafavi, Ehsan Esmaeili, Saber BMC Infect Dis Case Report BACKGROUND: Mediterranean spotted fever (MSF) is a zoonotic and vector-borne disease caused by Rickettsia conorii. We report a case (36 year-old-woman) of MSF caused by Rickettsia conorii from Iran. CASE PRESENTATION: In September 2019, the patient was admitted to the hospital in Kerman province with flu-like symptoms and maculopapular lesions. According to the laboratory results, thrombocytopenia, elevated liver enzymes, and cardiac enzymes were observed. Skin biopsy was examined for Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) and MSF using the Real-Time-PCR and ELISA method. Finally, the sample was positive for Rickettsia conorii subsp. israelensis and treated with doxycycline and completely recovered. CONCLUSIONS: This study showed that MSF could be present in Iran. Therefore, identifying endemic areas in Iran for this disease should be on the agenda. BioMed Central 2022-04-01 /pmc/articles/PMC8974134/ /pubmed/35365079 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-022-07291-9 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Esmaeili, Saber
Rickettsia conorii subsp. israelensis infection: a case report from southeast Iran
title Rickettsia conorii subsp. israelensis infection: a case report from southeast Iran
title_full Rickettsia conorii subsp. israelensis infection: a case report from southeast Iran
title_fullStr Rickettsia conorii subsp. israelensis infection: a case report from southeast Iran
title_full_unstemmed Rickettsia conorii subsp. israelensis infection: a case report from southeast Iran
title_short Rickettsia conorii subsp. israelensis infection: a case report from southeast Iran
title_sort rickettsia conorii subsp. israelensis infection: a case report from southeast iran
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8974134/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-022-07291-9
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